Latest / Early Breakfast with Ned McHenry & Sam Daddow / Early Breakfast with Ned & Sam - 18 September 2026
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- 0:02Speaker 1: Ned McHenry and Sam Datto, 5AA Early Breakfast.
- 0:10Speaker 2: Four after five, good morning, and welcome along to this
- 0:12Speaker 2: Friday morning on Early Breakfast. You can jump on the phones,
- 0:16Speaker 2: 8223 0000, or do what Mandy's already done, 044808 1395.
- 0:22Speaker 2: Going for a rip snorter couple of days. 22 degrees
- 0:26Speaker 2: and sunny this morning, 25 degrees and sunny on Saturday morning.
- 0:30Speaker 2: 24 degrees, mostly sunny on Sunday. Currently in the city,
- 0:34Speaker 2: 10.2 degrees. Morning, Ned.
- 0:37Speaker 3: Morning, Sammy. Morning, high-fivers.
- 0:40Speaker 4: Great to be with you this morning on Friday. Now,
- 0:43Speaker 4: Mandy has texted, and as you said.
- 0:47Speaker 3: I thought we could play a game.
- 0:48Speaker 4: Now, of course, that is the Blue Brothers Bark because
- 0:51Speaker 4: the Blue Brothers are the Blue Heelers, which she famously nicknamed.
- 0:55Speaker 3: We love it, Mandy.
- 0:56Speaker 4: She says, I'm taking my two youngest grandchildren to Werribee
- 0:59Speaker 4: Free Range Zoo on Sunday. Hopefully for my grandson, Charlie,
- 1:03Speaker 4: Hawthorne have a win, says Mandy. Mandy, that's excellent. Bit
- 1:07Speaker 4: to unpack there.
- 1:09Speaker 3: Firstly, zoos. Ethical or not ethical?
- 1:12Speaker 4: A free range zoo at Werribee there. Fantastic.
- 1:16Speaker 2: I love the idea of Monado.
- 1:17Speaker 4: Monado is fantastic. Monado's great. I haven't been there in
- 1:22Speaker 4: a groovy spot since it's been upgraded.
- 1:25Speaker 6: Same.
- 1:25Speaker 2: I haven't been for a long time.
- 1:26Speaker 4: Yeah, they've got a host of wonderful sweets there now,
- 1:29Speaker 4: but it's quite pricey, I must admit. I think it's
- 1:32Speaker 4: quite pricey. Has anyone been to Monado recently? What do
- 1:34Speaker 4: they think? And for our animal lovers, and we've got
- 1:37Speaker 4: plenty of them.
- 1:40Speaker 4: Um do they uh go to the zoo uh nate's
- 1:43Speaker 4: texting as well nate we've got a couple of wonderful
- 1:46Speaker 4: photos here he says morning legends a bit of a
- 1:48Speaker 4: strange friday topic i would appreciate your views on yesterday
- 1:51Speaker 4: on a morning i haven't read this by the way
- 1:52Speaker 4: so i'm just reading it dumb bun ready yesterday on
- 1:55Speaker 4: my morning walk with my beautiful wife and dog where
- 1:57Speaker 4: i have mentioned previously myself and wife share a coffee
- 2:00Speaker 4: yes he's the coffee sharer to save money clever which
- 2:04Speaker 4: I never get to drink first, which is a whole
- 2:06Speaker 4: other topic, I recently swam in a crocodile enclosure in
- 2:09Speaker 4: Darwin called the Cage of Death. The Cage of Death
- 2:12Speaker 4: is basically a clear plastic Pringles tube that you go
- 2:15Speaker 4: inside of and you're lowered into a crocodile enclosure. Based
- 2:18Speaker 4: on this experience, we had a lengthy conversation about if
- 2:20Speaker 4: you faced off against either a crocodile or a shark,
- 2:23Speaker 4: which animal would you back yourself against to survive?
- 2:26Speaker 8: Shark.
- 2:27Speaker 9: Shark.
- 2:29Speaker 2: Shark. Crocodiles creep me out. They are related to dinosaurs.
- 2:34Speaker 2: I've watched enough Steve Irwin crocodile hunter videos to know
- 2:37Speaker 2: that if you're in the water with a crocodile, you've
- 2:39Speaker 2: got no chance. I watched Mythbusters back in the day,
- 2:42Speaker 2: and if a shark comes near, you've got to punch
- 2:45Speaker 2: it in the nose or the gills.
- 2:46Speaker 10: Yeah.
- 2:47Speaker 2: You've got a chance of everything against a shark, not
- 2:49Speaker 2: a crocodile.
- 2:50Speaker 4: When I spearfish or cray dive, I've been in the
- 2:52Speaker 4: water with sharks, not great whites, but I've been in
- 2:54Speaker 4: the water with sharks, and their behaviour is very predictable, sharks.
- 2:58Speaker 4: But the one thing I will say, a saltwater crocodile,
- 3:01Speaker 4: if you don't see it and it's hunting you and
- 3:04Speaker 4: relying on surprise, you're no chance.
- 3:07Speaker 2: Exactly.
- 3:07Speaker 4: You're no chance. If you remove the element of surprise
- 3:12Speaker 4: from the crocodile, I don't think you're at any risk.
- 3:15Speaker 4: They're also deceptively quick. So you see the way their
- 3:18Speaker 4: legs go.
- 3:18Speaker 2: In the water. Oh, you reckon they're quick on land
- 3:20Speaker 2: as well?
- 3:21Speaker 4: No, their first 10 or 15 meters, a crocodile.
- 3:24Speaker 6: Wow.
- 3:24Speaker 4: They're not going to get you endurance. I mean, Lindy
- 3:27Speaker 4: at a park run, you are going to smash a
- 3:29Speaker 4: saltwater crocodile in a park run. But over 15 meters, Mandy,
- 3:32Speaker 4: that saltwater's crocky.
- 3:34Speaker 3: It might have you.
- 3:36Speaker 4: In its habitat, on mud, on a riverbank at Port Douglas.
- 3:39Speaker 3: Yeah, it might have you.
- 3:40Speaker 10: It might.
- 3:42Speaker 4: So it's hard.
- 3:42Speaker 2: Shark v.
- 3:43Speaker 3: Croc.
- 3:43Speaker 2: Which would you rather face off on? 8223 0000 inspired
- 3:46Speaker 2: by Nate?
- 3:47Speaker 4: We need more information. I mean, are you in the water?
- 3:49Speaker 3: Are you on land?
- 3:50Speaker 2: Well, put it this way. If you're going to be
- 3:52Speaker 2: with a shark, you're going to be in the water.
- 3:53Speaker 2: So let's make it the same.
- 3:54Speaker 4: That's what I was going to say.
- 3:54Speaker 2: You're both in the water.
- 3:56Speaker 4: If you're on land with a shark, I mean, you're
- 3:57Speaker 4: a massive chance to survive.
- 3:58Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. I'd back myself. Before we get any further, though,
- 4:03Speaker 2: I just wanted to mention, we mentioned this on Monday.
- 4:06Speaker 2: So Ammo Footy's on this weekend, the grand finals. We
- 4:08Speaker 2: know you're playing for the PAC Old Scholars or whatever
- 4:11Speaker 2: your team's called. Let us know if you're heading along,
- 4:15Speaker 2: if you've got a family member, if you're tied up
- 4:17Speaker 2: with any local footy. We want to know what Ammo
- 4:20Speaker 2: Footy grand finals are on this weekend, where they're taking place,
- 4:23Speaker 2: how your season has gone. 8223 0000, because there's going
- 4:26Speaker 2: to be plenty going on this weekend. And as I said... Tomorrow,
- 4:29Speaker 2: 25 degrees and sunny. It's beautiful conditions for a granny.
- 4:33Speaker 4: Yeah, it's going to be a great day for local
- 4:35Speaker 4: footy teams. I'm sure they're going to sell a bit
- 4:37Speaker 4: of West End.
- 4:37Speaker 3: Over the bar, no doubt.
- 4:40Speaker 4: Mick says, good luck tomorrow morning, Rex, at Richmond Oval.
- 4:43Speaker 4: Nice work, Mick.
- 4:43Speaker 2: You're all over it.
- 4:44Speaker 3: That's where we are.
- 4:45Speaker 4: He says, calm the Valley Vikings. Let's light up McGain
- 4:48Speaker 4: Stadiums and get redemption for last year. So, Mick, good
- 4:50Speaker 4: luck to the Valley Vikings. We're behind them there in
- 4:53Speaker 4: the Southern Footy League. So, yes, as I said, Zeus,
- 4:57Speaker 4: ethical or non-ethical? Who's gone down to Monado? I think
- 5:01Speaker 4: Peter from Marlston said he had. That's great.
- 5:04Speaker 2: Yes, he said, good morning. I went to Monado three
- 5:06Speaker 2: years ago. Brilliant experience. A bit pricey. Also stirred in
- 5:09Speaker 2: a big upset by 19 points this weekend.
- 5:12Speaker 4: Yeah. I still think Norwood are going to be too good, Pete,
- 5:15Speaker 4: but we love.
- 5:15Speaker 11: That, mate.
- 5:16Speaker 4: And you're always good with those sample predictions, so I
- 5:18Speaker 4: wouldn't be surprised if you were right. Rob says, the
- 5:22Speaker 4: texts are just humming through, so we could literally spend
- 5:24Speaker 4: the whole show reading texts.
- 5:25Speaker 2: But we'll come back to them in a moment.
- 5:26Speaker 4: We'll come back. But, Andrew, we do acknowledge all of
- 5:28Speaker 4: the people at the SA Projects market.
- 5:31Speaker 12: 1,600 people.
- 5:31Speaker 3: A lot of people.
- 5:33Speaker 4: You just don't understand how, sorry, you don't appreciate without
- 5:36Speaker 4: understanding just how big some of these industries are.
- 5:39Speaker 2: And Andrew, I didn't realize how popular I was until
- 5:42Speaker 2: I had mangoes yesterday. Everyone wanted a bit of my mango.
- 5:45Speaker 2: Did they?
- 5:45Speaker 10: Yeah.
- 5:46Speaker 3: What, people in the office?
- 5:47Speaker 13: Yeah.
- 5:48Speaker 4: Well, a mango is a very tradable commodity.
- 5:52Speaker 2: They're sought after. I wasn't getting anything back in return,
- 5:55Speaker 2: but I was like, here, have a mango. I felt
- 5:57Speaker 2: like Oprah. Everyone got a mango.
- 5:59Speaker 4: Everyone have a mango. Well, it's demand and supply. The
- 6:01Speaker 4: demand is high for mangoes. They're a juicy, beautiful fruit.
- 6:07Speaker 3: Ned?
- 6:07Speaker 5: Yes?
- 6:08Speaker 2: When was the last time you got a parking ticket?
- 6:10Speaker 4: Oh, I get so many parking tickets. So many parking tickets.
- 6:14Speaker 2: Or a speeding one, actually.
- 6:15Speaker 4: To the Adelaide City Council. It's coming.
- 6:18Speaker 2: Don't stress, everyone.
- 6:20Speaker 4: They're sending letters, stressing.
- 6:22Speaker 1: Just relax.
- 6:23Speaker 12: It's coming.
- 6:24Speaker 4: Just give me some time.
- 6:25Speaker 2: This piqued my interest when I saw it last night.
- 6:28Speaker 14: Yep.
- 6:28Speaker 2: Audio here thanks to Sunrise.
- 6:30Speaker 15: A Queensland woman has been charged after allegedly taking the
- 6:34Speaker 15: fall for dodgy drivers. The 27-year-old is accused of running
- 6:38Speaker 15: a cash for demerit scheme where she absorbed fines and
- 6:41Speaker 15: demerit points, advertising her services on social media. In total,
- 6:45Speaker 15: she racked up $ 620, 000 worth of penalties within four years.
- 6:52Speaker 16: Wow.
- 6:52Speaker 2: Unethical or entrepreneurial?
- 6:55Speaker 4: I think a bit of both. I think a bit
- 6:56Speaker 4: of both. Yeah, not the right thing to do. Parking fines.
- 7:01Speaker 4: Is there anything more irritating than getting a parking fine?
- 7:04Speaker 2: Oh, I had a mate a couple of years ago.
- 7:08Speaker 2: We were, I think we were going to the Adelaide 500,
- 7:10Speaker 2: might have been, and he weighed up the options of
- 7:13Speaker 2: paying for parking all day and what he thought a
- 7:14Speaker 2: parking ticket would be, and he just went with a
- 7:16Speaker 2: parking ticket.
- 7:16Speaker 12: Did he?
- 7:17Speaker 17: Yeah.
- 7:18Speaker 4: I know people that do that. I know people that
- 7:20Speaker 4: refuse to pay them out of private parking things, but
- 7:22Speaker 4: that's not right because people have invested in that facility
- 7:25Speaker 4: to give people the option to put their car there.
- 7:28Speaker 2: But you've always got to be careful with parking tickets
- 7:30Speaker 2: because if you don't pay them, they keep mounting and mounting.
- 7:33Speaker 4: They compound, baby.
- 7:34Speaker 2: They compound.
- 7:35Speaker 4: Yeah, no doubt about it. Has anyone had an expensive
- 7:37Speaker 4: parking ticket that they had no idea about? Some great
- 7:40Speaker 4: techs coming through. We will get to those. I've got
- 7:42Speaker 4: a bit of a yarn for you, Sammy, if I
- 7:44Speaker 4: can share.
- 7:44Speaker 3: Go for it.
- 7:45Speaker 4: I'm moving house. I'm moving house, and I have.
- 7:52Speaker 3: A few house buddies that live together. We live together.
- 7:55Speaker 4: Some of them are in the media at the moment
- 7:57Speaker 4: about potentially moving interstate or whatever. The reason we're moving
- 8:01Speaker 4: house is because I bought a new house.
- 8:03Speaker 13: Hey!
- 8:04Speaker 12: Thanks, mate.
- 8:06Speaker 4: Challenging to do in this market, I must say. But anyway,
- 8:09Speaker 4: so moving. So I've got to get my house ready
- 8:11Speaker 4: for sale.
- 8:12Speaker 3: Now, there's a bit to do with this.
- 8:13Speaker 2: Is this the house without a kitchen?
- 8:15Speaker 4: No.
- 8:16Speaker 10: No.
- 8:16Speaker 2: Sorry, go on.
- 8:17Speaker 4: There is a kitchen.
- 8:17Speaker 2: Go on.
- 8:18Speaker 4: So I've got to get the house ready for sale. Anyway,
- 8:20Speaker 4: I had a moving truck yesterday.
- 8:23Speaker 2: You're moving quick.
- 8:24Speaker 4: Yeah, we're not mucking around.
- 8:25Speaker 11: Okay.
- 8:26Speaker 3: We do things properly. Do it quickly.
- 8:27Speaker 4: But that's what I'm getting to. So there's a moving
- 8:29Speaker 4: truck there. We're unloading all of the couches. Now, my
- 8:32Speaker 4: housemate is Nick Murray.
- 8:33Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.
- 8:35Speaker 4: You know in the media at the moment there's some
- 8:36Speaker 4: rumours about Nick potentially requesting a trade to North Melbourne.
- 8:41Speaker 2: Yep. Were there camos there?
- 8:44Speaker 4: So I honestly can confess that this has nothing to
- 8:48Speaker 4: do with Nick. Nick's organised his own rental with his
- 8:51Speaker 4: girlfriend in Adelaide. So it's got nothing to do with it.
- 8:54Speaker 4: I've bought a new house, so the house is on
- 8:56Speaker 4: the market in two weeks, so we have to get
- 8:57Speaker 4: everything out. This is 100% true. So Nick and I
- 9:01Speaker 4: are loading couches into this moving thing.
- 9:03Speaker 1: Yep.
- 9:05Speaker 4: About four minutes in, a fella walks past my front
- 9:09Speaker 4: door and goes, ah, so the rumours are true.
- 9:15Speaker 3: So that fella.
- 9:17Speaker 4: If you're listening, I'm sure you're not.
- 9:18Speaker 2: He's probably going straight to Rennie, and Rennie's going to
- 9:20Speaker 2: run it at 6 o'clock.
- 9:21Speaker 4: Goodness, mate, it was funny. Because we thought the irony
- 9:24Speaker 4: of this, I mean, Nick's not as high profile as
- 9:27Speaker 4: Zach Butters by any stretch. I mean, Zach was a superstar,
- 9:29Speaker 4: but he was in the paper with that moving van
- 9:32Speaker 4: in a similar location. And we were laughing. We thought
- 9:34Speaker 4: if someone sees this, they're going to think that Nick's
- 9:36Speaker 4: moving away or something.
- 9:37Speaker 14: But really, I have to get my stuff out. It
- 9:40Speaker 14: was just so funny. Four minutes in, this fellow walks past.
- 9:44Speaker 4: So the rumours are true.
- 9:46Speaker 2: So good.
- 9:47Speaker 4: Brad from One Tree Hill. Good morning.
- 9:49Speaker 11: Morning, Sam. Morning, Ned. Now, I'd like to talk about
- 9:54Speaker 11: the big event, the game of the year, the Marty
- 9:58Speaker 11: Double Blues versus Nord, if I could.
- 10:01Speaker 3: Yeah, love you too.
- 10:01Speaker 2: Go for it.
- 10:03Speaker 10: Yeah, righto.
- 10:04Speaker 11: Now, there's a couple of things to this. We've got
- 10:07Speaker 11: a couple of things going in their favour this year,
- 10:10Speaker 11: even though we're the rank underdogs to the Redlegs. We
- 10:14Speaker 11: haven't got that cheap numpire foster buddy at the umpire
- 10:20Speaker 11: in the game like in 1978 when we lost by
- 10:23Speaker 11: that fateful decision he made. And the second thing is,
- 10:29Speaker 11: I've sent these boys a picture of it. It's a
- 10:32Speaker 11: picture of my Uncle Wal's scarf. He'd come back from
- 10:38Speaker 11: World War II, ran it to Brook, cut a long
- 10:40Speaker 11: story short, and Aunty Georgie made him the scarf. And
- 10:45Speaker 11: when he moved on to the big sky up there,
- 10:47Speaker 11: the big oval up there, throwing all his stuff out
- 10:51Speaker 11: and I was going to throw it out and I
- 10:53Speaker 11: snabbled it. And I've worn it to three, the last
- 10:57Speaker 11: three steps. Lucky memento. And I reckon those couple of
- 11:04Speaker 11: factors are going to turn it in our way.
- 11:07Speaker 3: Yeah, love that, Brad.
- 11:08Speaker 4: Hey, what's the badge, mate, on the scarf?
- 11:14Speaker 11: What was that?
- 11:15Speaker 4: The badge on the scarf, Brad, what does that represent?
- 11:19Speaker 11: The illness calf is those Australian signatures that he wore
- 11:24Speaker 11: as a round of the book of that.
- 11:26Speaker 14: Yeah, great.
- 11:27Speaker 10: Wow.
- 11:27Speaker 11: Yeah, so it's a family memento.
- 11:30Speaker 12: Yep.
- 11:30Speaker 11: And it's in great condition because only Georgie kept it
- 11:33Speaker 11: in a box of camphor and all that sort of stuff. Yeah,
- 11:37Speaker 11: but I've seen the last three flags. I don't like
- 11:40Speaker 11: to live in the past like some people, and that's
- 11:42Speaker 11: all I can rattle and bang on about is the past.
- 11:45Speaker 8: Yeah.
- 11:46Speaker 11: I don't go do almanacs and bring out stats and
- 11:49Speaker 11: figures and splurge them all over the air. But there
- 11:54Speaker 11: are three grand forms we've seen, and hopefully we get
- 11:57Speaker 11: the quadrilla this weekend.
- 11:59Speaker 2: Oh, great, Brad.
- 12:00Speaker 4: Thanks for your call. Good luck to you, and that's
- 12:02Speaker 4: a wonderful memento.
- 12:04Speaker 2: Does anyone have any lucky charms?
- 12:06Speaker 9: Yeah.
- 12:06Speaker 2: Lucky mementos. Anything that you do or you take, it
- 12:09Speaker 2: doesn't have to be to a sporting match or to
- 12:11Speaker 2: the footy, or just any lucky charms does anyone have?
- 12:14Speaker 2: 8223 0000. That's a ripper. Great idea.
- 12:18Speaker 4: Lucky charms.
- 12:18Speaker 3: Have you got one?
- 12:19Speaker 2: Not really, no.
- 12:21Speaker 4: I don't have any lucky charms. I've got some stuff
- 12:23Speaker 4: that I keep that's sentimental, but I wouldn't say it's lucky.
- 12:26Speaker 2: But you're not going to go to a footy match
- 12:28Speaker 2: and wear it to make sure that the Crows win?
- 12:30Speaker 18: No.
- 12:30Speaker 2: You don't have a lucky... Okay, when you play footy,
- 12:32Speaker 2: do you have a lucky pair of underwear?
- 12:33Speaker 14: No.
- 12:33Speaker 11: Okay.
- 12:34Speaker 4: I was never into that. I've never kind of been
- 12:36Speaker 4: in that lane.
- 12:36Speaker 8: Okay.
- 12:37Speaker 4: A lucky item, folks. That's a good one. Yeah, it's
- 12:40Speaker 4: something that you take to the footy. Peter from Milestone,
- 12:42Speaker 4: he said he had the pleasure of meeting Jordan Dawson
- 12:45Speaker 4: in Glenelg yesterday. Very polite and very friendly.
- 12:48Speaker 12: Okay.
- 12:49Speaker 4: What's a famous person or a famous interaction story you have, folks?
- 12:53Speaker 4: 8223 0000.
- 12:54Speaker 2: Mine's not super famous, but back in the day, I
- 12:57Speaker 2: was a delivery boy, as people would know, and I'd
- 12:59Speaker 2: do a Saturday morning paper run, and I'd be delivering
- 13:02Speaker 2: papers in the CBD, North Adelaide, and out. sort of
- 13:05Speaker 2: eastern suburbs. I was delivering down Rundle Mall one day,
- 13:08Speaker 2: and big Jonathan Brown.
- 13:10Speaker 4: Jono Brown.
- 13:11Speaker 2: In his prime, was walking down the mall.
- 13:14Speaker 4: How good's his voice?
- 13:15Speaker 2: And I was thinking, oh, I want a picture with
- 13:17Speaker 2: Jonathan Brown.
- 13:17Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 13:18Speaker 2: So I got a picture. However, the captain at the time,
- 13:20Speaker 2: I think, was Jade Ashton. I can't even remember his name. Adcock?
- 13:25Speaker 12: Adcock.
- 13:25Speaker 14: No.
- 13:26Speaker 3: Jed Adcock.
- 13:27Speaker 2: Jed Adcock. That's it. And I said to Brownie, oh, mate,
- 13:30Speaker 2: can I get a photo with you? He's like, yeah,
- 13:31Speaker 2: no worries, mate. No worries. So I pointed to him.
- 13:34Speaker 2: No worries, mate. I handed my phone over. I was like, oh, sorry, mate.
- 13:36Speaker 2: Can you take the photo? And Brownie's like, you know
- 13:38Speaker 2: that's our skipper, right? I was like, no, mate. I'm
- 13:40Speaker 2: a port supporter. He's like, oh, come in here, fella.
- 13:42Speaker 2: It's all right.
- 13:42Speaker 4: That's great.
- 13:43Speaker 2: So the skipper of Port Adelaide took a photo with
- 13:45Speaker 2: me and Jonathan Brown.
- 13:45Speaker 4: Yeah, two good call topics there, 8223 0000. Your lucky charm,
- 13:49Speaker 4: what do you take when you need some luck? It
- 13:51Speaker 4: might be a memento, it might be a scarf, it
- 13:53Speaker 4: might be anything. And then as well, off the back
- 13:56Speaker 4: of Peter from Marlson's text, meeting Jordan Dawson yesterday, what's
- 14:00Speaker 4: an interaction you've had with someone famous, either good, bad,
- 14:04Speaker 4: or otherwise? That story about Jonathan Brown's a good one.
- 14:07Speaker 4: Jordan Dawson is very friendly. He's a beautiful, beautiful man
- 14:10Speaker 4: with a huge heart, Peter. I'm actually going to the
- 14:12Speaker 4: Tiwi Islands on a fishing trip with him shortly for
- 14:14Speaker 4: a weekend. We're heading up the Tiwi Islands. We're going
- 14:16Speaker 4: to do some fishing up north. Yeah, looking forward to it.
- 14:19Speaker 2: Fair enough.
- 14:20Speaker 1: Yeah. Ned McHenry and Sam Datto. 5AA Early Breakfast.
- 14:25Speaker 2: 22 after 5 on this Friday. Anyone got any lucky
- 14:34Speaker 2: charms or have you met any famous or semi-famous people
- 14:37Speaker 2: in and around Adelaide or on your travels? 8223 0000.
- 14:42Speaker 2: Phones are running hot. Russell, good morning to you.
- 14:45Speaker 12: Good morning, James. How are we?
- 14:46Speaker 2: Hello, Russell. Good.
- 14:49Speaker 4: Hey, remember when Ayrton Senna sadly passed away and they
- 14:52Speaker 4: put in the Senna chicane when we had the F1
- 14:56Speaker 4: here in Adelaide?
- 14:57Speaker 14: Yeah.
- 14:59Speaker 12: I was fortunate enough to get a copy of the
- 15:01Speaker 12: track when that was all done, and I was out
- 15:03Speaker 12: there at the race, and.
- 15:05Speaker 11: I got Nicky Louder, Nigel.
- 15:08Speaker 2: Mansell, and Glenn Dix to name a few to sign it.
- 15:11Speaker 13: Wow.
- 15:12Speaker 2: That's not bad. That's going to be hard to beat
- 15:14Speaker 2: this morning. You know, the thing is, they were just
- 15:19Speaker 2: absolute gentlemen.
- 15:20Speaker 9: Absolute gentlemen as well.
- 15:22Speaker 4: How good is it when you meet someone you admire, Russell,
- 15:24Speaker 4: and they're just a good person? It's fantastic.
- 15:28Speaker 11: Oh, and you're right, Nick, because most people look at
- 15:31Speaker 11: these people and they think, oh, you know, they think
- 15:33Speaker 11: they're better than us, but they're not.
- 15:34Speaker 9: They're human beings.
- 15:36Speaker 11: But you treat them well, they'll treat you the same back.
- 15:38Speaker 12: It works both ways.
- 15:39Speaker 10: Yeah.
- 15:40Speaker 4: Now, great call, Russell.
- 15:41Speaker 2: Love that.
- 15:41Speaker 4: In the running for a Peppers truck wash pack, potentially. Sammy,
- 15:45Speaker 4: can we give one of those away today?
- 15:46Speaker 2: Yeah, why not?
- 15:47Speaker 4: Can we? Yeah. Oh, we love Ray Pepper and.
- 15:49Speaker 2: Peppers truck wash. It's because we forgot to give one
- 15:51Speaker 2: away last week.
- 15:52Speaker 19: Oh, no.
- 15:54Speaker 4: Linda from Hallet Cove, how are you going with your injury, Linda?
- 15:57Speaker 4: And you're off to Honolulu shortly.
- 15:58Speaker 7: Well, I'm out of pain. I've had two massive injections
- 16:02Speaker 7: of cortisone, steroids. And I'm getting nervous because I'm not organized,
- 16:07Speaker 7: but I'll get there.
- 16:09Speaker 8: Two things.
- 16:10Speaker 7: Famous person, we were driving on the motorway in the UK,
- 16:15Speaker 7: going back quite a few years now, and there was
- 16:17Speaker 7: black ice on.
- 16:17Speaker 9: The road and we're on the motorway. There was a
- 16:20Speaker 9: Rolls Royce in front of us and we had to
- 16:23Speaker 9: get past it because it was going very stately slow,
- 16:25Speaker 9: you know. Anyway, when I looked in, it was Frank Highfield.
- 16:29Speaker 3: Oh, Linda.
- 16:30Speaker 10: I know.
- 16:31Speaker 12: Right.
- 16:32Speaker 10: Treasure.
- 16:33Speaker 3: Treasure. Very good.
- 16:36Speaker 7: I have a lucky charm.
- 16:38Speaker 10: Yes?
- 16:39Speaker 3: What is it?
- 16:39Speaker 9: My husband.
- 16:41Speaker 10: Oh, Mr.
- 16:42Speaker 13: Linda.
- 16:42Speaker 7: That's what everybody does. But then when I add the
- 16:45Speaker 7: next bit and they say, oh, what? I said, I
- 16:48Speaker 7: call him treasure. And they say, why do you call
- 16:50Speaker 7: him treasure? And I said, when my girlfriend met him
- 16:55Speaker 7: 51 years ago, they said, where did you dig in
- 16:58Speaker 7: that from?
- 17:01Speaker 4: That's so good, Linda.
- 17:02Speaker 10: Yeah.
- 17:02Speaker 4: I love hearing the stories about your marriage because you're
- 17:05Speaker 4: both happy and supportive of each other and laugh, and
- 17:07Speaker 4: it's a great story. David from Aldinga Beach, good morning.
- 17:14Speaker 2: Good morning.
- 17:16Speaker 12: Good morning. I met the crocodile hunter himself, Steve Irwin.
- 17:21Speaker 2: Back in the day.
- 17:22Speaker 3: You're kidding. We were at the.
- 17:23Speaker 12: Australia Zoo when my kids were small. And, yeah, he
- 17:27Speaker 12: was a fantastic guy. I really, really.
- 17:30Speaker 17: He was like.
- 17:31Speaker 12: As you saw him on TV, he was like that
- 17:33Speaker 12: all the time.
- 17:34Speaker 3: He was.
- 17:35Speaker 12: Yeah, it's... A fantastic guy. He was on his motorbike
- 17:40Speaker 12: holding his baby. I think it would have been his son.
- 17:46Speaker 12: And he went around and we saw him and he
- 17:49Speaker 12: came out, got off his bike with his kid and
- 17:53Speaker 12: he was talking to us. I went up to him,
- 17:56Speaker 12: shook my hand. He goes, where are you from? I said,
- 17:58Speaker 12: I'm from Adelaide. And had a bit of a talk.
- 18:00Speaker 12: And he goes, are you going to go and see
- 18:01Speaker 12: my show? I said, I've seen the show. Because, yeah,
- 18:05Speaker 12: he does that crocodile show. And he was telling me
- 18:07Speaker 12: all about the crocodiles and things. And, no, he's a really,
- 18:09Speaker 12: really nice guy.
- 18:11Speaker 11: Really, really nice.
- 18:12Speaker 4: Nice work, David. That's great. Steve Irwin, because he's so
- 18:16Speaker 4: high energy, he might be excused at times of being
- 18:19Speaker 4: a little bit underwhelming when you meet him, I'd imagine.
- 18:21Speaker 4: But I've never, ever heard one story where anyone left
- 18:25Speaker 4: disappointed meeting Steve Irwin.
- 18:26Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 18:27Speaker 4: Do you know what I mean?
- 18:27Speaker 11: Crikey.
- 18:28Speaker 4: Like, he's at 100 miles an hour all day. You
- 18:30Speaker 4: could maybe see a world where if someone ran into him,
- 18:33Speaker 4: he was a tiny bit flat. You know, he'd been
- 18:35Speaker 4: hosting everything. He'd been hunting crocodiles, keeping Australia's conservation front
- 18:39Speaker 4: of mind for everyone the whole day. And then you
- 18:42Speaker 4: saw him and he went, oh. Oh, yeah, crikey.
- 18:44Speaker 2: Like, not a real crikey?
- 18:45Speaker 3: You kind of forgive him?
- 18:46Speaker 2: Not an on-screen crikey, just an everyday sort of crikey.
- 18:48Speaker 4: He never gave a half-baked crikey to any Australian that
- 18:52Speaker 4: said g'day to him, including Dave.
- 18:54Speaker 2: That's great.
- 18:54Speaker 1: Hello, Sue.
- 18:56Speaker 17: Morning.
- 18:57Speaker 7: Just a quick call.
- 18:57Speaker 13: I'm rushing off to the op shop, but I just
- 18:59Speaker 13: thought I'd give you a quick Friday morning ring.
- 19:01Speaker 10: Good.
- 19:02Speaker 13: Yes, the famous person I met, I think I told
- 19:06Speaker 13: you who it was, Nigel Mansell.
- 19:08Speaker 11: Nice.
- 19:09Speaker 2: Nigel Mansell gets around. He was hanging out with, was
- 19:12Speaker 2: it Russell? No, he was hanging out with Sue.
- 19:15Speaker 13: Yeah, he was such a nice guy, and we could
- 19:19Speaker 13: only chat for about 10 minutes, but that was enough
- 19:21Speaker 13: for me. He was my idol. My other idol was
- 19:25Speaker 13: Rick Davies, and I got to meet Rick. That was lovely.
- 19:28Speaker 13: But I just thought very quick about Crocs and Sharks.
- 19:33Speaker 13: I absolutely love sharks. I've got 40 books on sharks.
- 19:39Speaker 13: I love sharks, but I do know a couple of
- 19:41Speaker 13: people who have had close encounters with crocs, too close,
- 19:46Speaker 13: and they're interesting creatures, but I absolutely love sharks. I
- 19:50Speaker 13: think they're the most magnificent creatures and totally fascinating. So,
- 19:55Speaker 13: you know, I love everything. I'll watch anything that's on
- 19:59Speaker 13: TV or any book. I love my sharks.
- 20:02Speaker 2: So you'd rather be in the water with a shark
- 20:03Speaker 2: than a crocodile?
- 20:05Speaker 13: Yes. Yes, absolutely. You put one foot in the water
- 20:08Speaker 13: with a croc and you're gone. But most sharks, they
- 20:12Speaker 13: swim past you every day.
- 20:14Speaker 2: Love it.
- 20:14Speaker 4: Dave from Meadows, what a beautiful part of the world, Dave.
- 20:17Speaker 3: Thanks, boys.
- 20:18Speaker 17: How are you going?
- 20:19Speaker 18: Good.
- 20:19Speaker 3: Good, Dave.
- 20:21Speaker 17: Back in 1990, Joe's my age, and we went on
- 20:24Speaker 17: a boat trip called the Bear Star and docked in Fiji,
- 20:30Speaker 17: and we got warned on the bay, people don't go around...
- 20:34Speaker 17: by yourselves, but there was four blokes, different meadows.
- 20:38Speaker 12: On the trip.
- 20:39Speaker 17: And we were walking through all these little dodgy shops
- 20:42Speaker 17: in Fiji and had a crowd getting around us. Couldn't
- 20:45Speaker 17: work out what the hell was going on. Everybody kept
- 20:48Speaker 17: following us. And then one of them come up and said, Hey, Mr. Candy,
- 20:53Speaker 17: how are you?
- 20:53Speaker 12: I was like, oh, hell.
- 20:55Speaker 8: So they thought I.
- 20:56Speaker 12: Was John Candy.
- 20:57Speaker 1: Did they?
- 20:58Speaker 13: Yeah.
- 21:00Speaker 17: Yep, and everybody was following us for Buddy. We would
- 21:03Speaker 17: have had 200 people following us.
- 21:05Speaker 12: And, yeah, at the end of the day.
- 21:08Speaker 17: I reckon I signed 500 shirts and took about 300 photos.
- 21:13Speaker 2: So you didn't meet someone, but you were mistaken for someone.
- 21:16Speaker 11: That's not bad.
- 21:17Speaker 13: Yep.
- 21:18Speaker 17: A hundred percent, yep. And it was a scary thing
- 21:22Speaker 17: because we just couldn't wait to hear what all these
- 21:23Speaker 17: people were doing.
- 21:24Speaker 2: Did you think you looked like John Candy then?
- 21:27Speaker 12: Not at all.
- 21:29Speaker 17: Like a little bit, but not at all. But when
- 21:32Speaker 17: they asked, oh, are you John Candy?
- 21:33Speaker 3: I was like, that's what all the people were.
- 21:36Speaker 17: And I went, okay, so the next lot of shops
- 21:37Speaker 17: we went, I just started tying the shirts and I
- 21:39Speaker 17: was trying on bloody dresses.
- 21:41Speaker 1: Oh, man.
- 21:43Speaker 12: We had a big day.
- 21:44Speaker 2: Oh, God.
- 21:45Speaker 3: Well done, Dave.
- 21:46Speaker 2: Well done, Dave. Dave might be a clubhouse leader right now.
- 21:48Speaker 3: That's very, very good. The calls are coming through. We'll
- 21:51Speaker 3: go through quickly.
- 21:51Speaker 4: Michael from Ross Trevor, who have you met?
- 21:53Speaker 12: Crikey.
- 21:55Speaker 2: Friday.
- 21:56Speaker 6: Happy Friday.
- 21:57Speaker 2: Happy Friday.
- 21:57Speaker 8: Hey, isn't moving house such a waste of time? It sucks.
- 22:02Speaker 8: You just can't get that time back again.
- 22:04Speaker 4: Oh, it's just so annoying, Michael.
- 22:06Speaker 6: It is.
- 22:07Speaker 8: And in 10 days, it's my anniversary of moving. into
- 22:12Speaker 8: the house that I'm in right now. And that was
- 22:14Speaker 8: the anniversary which coincides with the statewide blackouts. It's a
- 22:18Speaker 8: bit hard to forget that one.
- 22:19Speaker 14: Oh, right.
- 22:19Speaker 4: Yeah, no, you won't forget that.
- 22:21Speaker 8: One morning, the morning was quite warm, warmer than average,
- 22:27Speaker 8: quite hot. And then by afternoon, it was raining. And
- 22:30Speaker 8: then by five o'clock, whatever it was, no lights. Great
- 22:36Speaker 8: way to move into a house. Famous people, Lance Armstrong,
- 22:39Speaker 8: when he came to Atlanta.
- 22:40Speaker 6: Oh, wow.
- 22:40Speaker 2: Good one.
- 22:41Speaker 8: And when I was in Santa Monica, not Santa Monica,
- 22:45Speaker 8: Pacific Palisades, my brother lived there, still does. One of
- 22:50Speaker 8: the famous people, Arnold Schwarzenegger, walked past the coffee shop.
- 22:55Speaker 2: Did he come back?
- 22:57Speaker 8: No, he was moving on. He was just a Duncan
- 23:00Speaker 8: had played, not played. He was the soccer coach for
- 23:04Speaker 8: the school kids.
- 23:06Speaker 3: You love meeting people who are juiced up, Michael.
- 23:09Speaker 2: Lance Armstrong, Arnold Trotter.
- 23:10Speaker 14: Yeah.
- 23:11Speaker 4: Hero or villain, Lance Armstrong?
- 23:13Speaker 6: Oh.
- 23:14Speaker 4: Hero or villain? Everyone was doing it in cycling, weren't they?
- 23:18Speaker 3: It was just he was the best at it.
- 23:20Speaker 2: I think hero is too strong of a word, but
- 23:22Speaker 2: he's not a villain.
- 23:22Speaker 12: Yeah.
- 23:24Speaker 14: Yeah.
- 23:25Speaker 4: Mark from Finden, give us a honk, please.
- 23:28Speaker 13: Yeah, boys.
- 23:29Speaker 2: Marky Mark, hi.
- 23:30Speaker 12: Marky Mark, yeah, everyone.
- 23:33Speaker 3: Hey, I met a.
- 23:35Speaker 12: Really famous person two years ago at the Adelaide Boat Show,
- 23:40Speaker 12: and I reckon I might meet him again this.
- 23:41Speaker 5: Time, this boat show.
- 23:44Speaker 11: Don't laugh, Ned McHenry.
- 23:46Speaker 3: I'm not famous, Mark. It's you, mate.
- 23:48Speaker 12: You are, Sonny.
- 23:50Speaker 10: You're famous.
- 23:51Speaker 11: Come on, brother.
- 23:53Speaker 14: I'd love to catch up, Mark, again.
- 23:56Speaker 4: Are you going to come?
- 23:58Speaker 2: I am.
- 23:59Speaker 11: I'm going to get a T-shirt and put, Hey, Ned,
- 24:02Speaker 11: I'm Mark the Truckie.
- 24:05Speaker 3: Yes, well, that'd be great. I'd absolutely adore that.
- 24:08Speaker 12: I will be there, mate, for sure. What day are
- 24:10Speaker 12: you going to be there? Are you going to be
- 24:11Speaker 12: there Sunday or Saturday?
- 24:12Speaker 3: I think I'll be there both days.
- 24:15Speaker 12: All right, mate. I'll see you there for sure.
- 24:17Speaker 4: Love your work, Mark. Can't wait. Thanks for calling in,
- 24:20Speaker 4: as always.
- 24:21Speaker 12: All right, brother.
- 24:22Speaker 4: See you, brother.
- 24:23Speaker 3: Andrew from Kirsbrook.
- 24:24Speaker 10: Hello.
- 24:25Speaker 6: Good morning.
- 24:25Speaker 2: How are you?
- 24:26Speaker 4: Very good.
- 24:27Speaker 12: How are you?
- 24:27Speaker 10: Good, good, good. 1984, the family was on a holiday
- 24:31Speaker 10: in Perth, and we're on.
- 24:33Speaker 7: Scarborough Beach, and Dennis Lilly ran past.
- 24:35Speaker 2: Dennis!
- 24:36Speaker 10: And Dad's like, go down and get his autograph. So
- 24:39Speaker 10: I ran down there, and he wrote it on a thong,
- 24:43Speaker 10: on a piece of paper, obviously. And then we're playing cricket.
- 24:48Speaker 10: He's like, you're playing cricket, son?
- 24:51Speaker 6: I'm like, yeah.
- 24:52Speaker 10: He comes up, Dad's batting. Bowled a couple of balls.
- 24:57Speaker 20: That's good.
- 24:58Speaker 10: Bowled a couple of balls.
- 24:59Speaker 20: Dad, like, he's chuffed out. I got to bloody face
- 25:02Speaker 20: against Dennis Lilley with.
- 25:04Speaker 10: A tennis ball.
- 25:05Speaker 2: Was he bowling heat? Was he bowling heat? Or was
- 25:07Speaker 2: he taking his.
- 25:07Speaker 8: No.
- 25:08Speaker 20: No, it was a tennis ball. I think Dad actually
- 25:12Speaker 20: hit him, but anyway. 2000, so fast forward to 2008,
- 25:18Speaker 20: the old man got bowel cancer and was, like, really crook.
- 25:23Speaker 10: And me and... Hey, my ex-wife at the time, we'd
- 25:26Speaker 10: been in town all night. We're walking back through Rundle Mall.
- 25:30Speaker 10: Dennis Lilley was setting up a blue... What's the shoes
- 25:35Speaker 10: that he sells?
- 25:36Speaker 2: Blundstone?
- 25:37Speaker 20: The safety boots that he sells.
- 25:39Speaker 10: He was setting up like a thing in the mall.
- 25:42Speaker 2: Oh, my, Dennis Lilley.
- 25:44Speaker 10: So I think it was a World Cup year.
- 25:46Speaker 6: I think it was 2000.
- 25:47Speaker 10: No, it was around then.
- 25:49Speaker 13: Um.
- 25:50Speaker 10: I'm like, if I get a shirt, would you be
- 25:51Speaker 10: able to sign it for my dad?
- 25:52Speaker 11: I don't know if he.
- 25:52Speaker 10: Remembered my dad.
- 25:53Speaker 6: He said that he did.
- 25:54Speaker 10: I doubt that he did. He signed a shirt for dad,
- 25:59Speaker 10: that World Cup year shirt. Dear Steve, best wishes like ever.
- 26:05Speaker 10: I had it mounted with all Dennis Lilley's statistics on it.
- 26:09Speaker 10: Then we flew up there and gave it to dad.
- 26:13Speaker 6: It was just a bit of a Dennis Lilley story.
- 26:16Speaker 2: Well done. Andrew, that's a ripper. Dennis Lilly. What a
- 26:19Speaker 2: down-to-earth guy.
- 26:19Speaker 4: There's no one more kind of notable and famous. The
- 26:22Speaker 4: big moustache.
- 26:23Speaker 11: Yeah.
- 26:23Speaker 4: I think he'd be one of the most iconic Australians ever.
- 26:26Speaker 2: Lilly and Tomo, one of the best duos in Australian
- 26:28Speaker 2: history ever.
- 26:29Speaker 14: Yep.
- 26:29Speaker 2: Let's head out to Beaumont. Frances, good morning.
- 26:31Speaker 12: Frances.
- 26:32Speaker 3: Good morning.
- 26:32Speaker 16: Good morning, boys. Two famous people. I was in Hong
- 26:38Speaker 16: Kong and just gotten off a train. I don't know
- 26:40Speaker 16: if you've ever been there. Wall of people. And we're
- 26:43Speaker 16: walking down the footpath, and I just glanced to the
- 26:45Speaker 16: person shuffling along next to me, and it was Jim Currier.
- 26:49Speaker 2: Oh, Jim Currier. Nice.
- 26:51Speaker 9: Wow.
- 26:52Speaker 16: So I asked him for his autograph, and he was
- 26:54Speaker 16: less than impressed, but he did give it to me.
- 26:57Speaker 11: Oh.
- 26:57Speaker 16: And then on a trip to London, I was browsing
- 27:00Speaker 16: in Harris in the food court, and this little bald
- 27:03Speaker 16: man came up to me, shook my hand, and said,
- 27:06Speaker 16: I'm Mohamed Al-Fayed. Welcome to my store.
- 27:08Speaker 12: Wow.
- 27:09Speaker 13: Wow.
- 27:11Speaker 16: So I was with a friend who lived there and
- 27:14Speaker 16: she said afterwards, well, I've been here for X amount
- 27:16Speaker 16: of years and never come across anybody famous. And we've
- 27:20Speaker 16: been here five minutes and Mohamed Al-Fayed has spoken to you.
- 27:23Speaker 4: It's extraordinary. Frances, just on Jim Currier, were you a
- 27:26Speaker 4: big tennis supporter, big fan?
- 27:28Speaker 12: Oh, yes.
- 27:29Speaker 16: Well, I definitely knew who he was and I think
- 27:33Speaker 16: he just won some big tournament when he was obviously
- 27:35Speaker 16: in Hong Kong for rest and relaxation and this The
- 27:39Speaker 16: little person was asking for his autograph, so he wasn't
- 27:42Speaker 16: that happy, but.
- 27:44Speaker 3: He gave it to me.
- 27:45Speaker 4: That's great.
- 27:46Speaker 3: Thank you, Frances, for your call.
- 27:47Speaker 4: It's a great story. Julie from Blakefield around us out
- 27:50Speaker 4: before the break.
- 27:50Speaker 2: Hello, Julie.
- 27:52Speaker 20: Good morning, boys.
- 27:52Speaker 8: Jesus, Julie, you sound shocking.
- 27:56Speaker 2: You've got to stop talking already.
- 27:58Speaker 5: Yeah, well, that's what you told me the other day, Sammy. Yeah,
- 28:02Speaker 5: I've just lost my voice all week. So I'm just
- 28:04Speaker 5: ringing up to wish you good luck for tomorrow, Ned.
- 28:07Speaker 5: Hope you win your grand final.
- 28:09Speaker 3: Oh, Jules, that's very kind.
- 28:10Speaker 4: The fact you're going through what you're going through but
- 28:12Speaker 4: you still want to take it a little further by
- 28:14Speaker 4: getting on the blower and wishing me luck means a lot.
- 28:17Speaker 5: Well, I've hardly spoken to you guys all week.
- 28:20Speaker 11: I know.
- 28:20Speaker 5: So I have to ring up and, yeah, just I
- 28:23Speaker 5: hope you win your grand final tomorrow. And, yeah, it's...
- 28:28Speaker 5: It's a bit hard to talk like this, but my husband, Mark,
- 28:32Speaker 5: likes it. Well, it's good that I don't have a
- 28:37Speaker 5: team playing in finals because I can't yell. So I
- 28:42Speaker 5: can sit quietly and watch the footy and not have
- 28:45Speaker 5: to panic.
- 28:46Speaker 4: You should be safe for the next couple of years
- 28:47Speaker 4: in case it happens, Julie.
- 28:49Speaker 20: Excuse me?
- 28:50Speaker 2: You're going so well now.
- 28:53Speaker 16: And Ned.
- 28:54Speaker 2: And she rang up to say good luck, and that's
- 28:56Speaker 2: how you treat Julie.
- 28:57Speaker 18: Unbelievable.
- 28:58Speaker 4: I'm appreciative of your call.
- 29:00Speaker 5: I don't think you are, Ned.
- 29:03Speaker 3: I am, Jules.
- 29:05Speaker 5: I don't think you are, Ned.
- 29:06Speaker 21: I really, really do want to love you, Ned, but
- 29:09Speaker 21: it's getting harder and harder when you've got comments and
- 29:12Speaker 21: like that. And I strain myself to ring up and
- 29:16Speaker 21: wish you well, Ned, and you've got to throw that in.
- 29:20Speaker 2: Oh, well, don't worry, Julie.
- 29:21Speaker 3: Julie, that was a cheap shot. I take that back.
- 29:24Speaker 2: You rest your voice. If anyone's got any croaky voice
- 29:27Speaker 2: remedies for Julie, let us know.
- 29:28Speaker 1: 0448081395.
- 29:29Speaker 2: She gave me a buzz on mornings. I think it
- 29:32Speaker 2: was a Wednesday. Even worse than that, but it's slowly
- 29:36Speaker 2: coming back.
- 29:36Speaker 4: We're going to get to a break.
- 29:37Speaker 2: There are a couple of here I want to just
- 29:38Speaker 2: mention quickly on the text line. Linda, morning, Sam and Ned.
- 29:42Speaker 2: I met James Earl Jones back in 2013, obviously the
- 29:45Speaker 2: voice of Darth Vader and a lot of other things
- 29:47Speaker 2: back in the day.
- 29:48Speaker 4: Okay.
- 29:49Speaker 2: Another one here, 917. Good morning, boys. Such and Tendulkar,
- 29:52Speaker 2: Kathy Freeman, Kate Sobrano.
- 29:54Speaker 13: Wow.
- 29:55Speaker 2: Jessica Mowboy.
- 29:56Speaker 10: Wow.
- 29:57Speaker 2: Rhonda Birchmore. I served them all when I worked in
- 29:59Speaker 2: Rundle Mall in a retail department store. Shoe shop. All
- 30:02Speaker 2: were very lovely. Have a great weekend.
- 30:04Speaker 4: Jeez, that's an impressive list.
- 30:06Speaker 2: And this one, Linda and Ingle Farm. It was at
- 30:08Speaker 2: a Julie Andrews show. James was in the audience. I
- 30:11Speaker 2: met him at a halftime interview. He was in Adelaide
- 30:14Speaker 2: for Driving Miss Daisy. Then I met Julie at the
- 30:17Speaker 2: end of the show.
- 30:18Speaker 4: Fantastic.
- 30:18Speaker 2: So keep those calls coming in, 8223 0000 044808 1395.
- 30:21Speaker 2: We've got Pepper's Truck Wash Pack. We'll be giving away
- 30:26Speaker 2: before 6 o'clock. Any lucky charms, any famous people you
- 30:30Speaker 2: might have run into across your travels or in Adelaide,
- 30:32Speaker 2: give us a call. Tommy Wren coming up next. Back
- 30:34Speaker 2: in a moment. Ned McHenry and Sam Datto.
- 30:37Speaker 1: 5AA Early Breakfast.
- 30:37Speaker 2: And I'm your man.
- 30:38Speaker 1: And what you call a friend.
- 30:39Speaker 19: 18 minutes to six on this Friday.
- 30:53Speaker 2: Top of 22 degrees and sunny today. Saturday, 25 degrees
- 30:57Speaker 2: and sunny. Sunday, 24 degrees, mostly sunny. Currently 7.1 degrees
- 31:02Speaker 2: in the city. Tom Wren very shortly. We'll check out
- 31:05Speaker 2: the weekend in sport. Been a busy morning so far, Ned.
- 31:08Speaker 4: Certainly has been. You can keep your calls coming through.
- 31:10Speaker 4: We'll take a call on anything. But specifically, we're talking
- 31:14Speaker 4: about famous interactions. It's off the back of Peter from
- 31:16Speaker 4: Marlston's text, wasn't it? He said he met Jordan Dawson
- 31:19Speaker 4: yesterday down at Glenelg. So we're asking you, who have
- 31:21Speaker 4: you met and what was the interaction like, good, bad
- 31:24Speaker 4: or otherwise? They've all been very positive to this point.
- 31:27Speaker 2: Except Jim Currier was a bit frosty.
- 31:29Speaker 3: Oh, a little frosty Jim was.
- 31:30Speaker 2: A bit of frosty frosty. If he just might have
- 31:32Speaker 2: torn them, he might have been hungover.
- 31:34Speaker 4: He might have been doing too many forehands.
- 31:35Speaker 3: Who knows?
- 31:36Speaker 4: You asked as well, lucky charms?
- 31:38Speaker 9: Yes.
- 31:38Speaker 4: Anyone have a lucky charm? I want to ask something too. Now,
- 31:42Speaker 4: if you're just joining us, you missed my incredibly boring story,
- 31:45Speaker 4: which is often the case when I speak. We're moving house.
- 31:49Speaker 4: We're moving house. Sammy, it's not easy and there's jobs
- 31:52Speaker 4: to do. Now, this is in line with an article
- 31:55Speaker 4: I read in the Advertiser this morning. A local South
- 31:58Speaker 4: Australian pest controller has rejected the use of AI marketing.
- 32:03Speaker 4: So now he's drawing his own stick figure advertisement. He
- 32:07Speaker 4: refuses to get on AI, so he's drawing stick figures
- 32:10Speaker 4: and posting them up for his marketing. A bit like
- 32:13Speaker 4: me with moving house, you know, you've got to paint,
- 32:16Speaker 4: you've got to do your floors, you've got to do everything.
- 32:18Speaker 4: And I'm just the kind of person who thinks, like,
- 32:20Speaker 4: I can do it. You know, I'm not paying someone.
- 32:22Speaker 4: I'll just get in there and do it. But then
- 32:23Speaker 4: you look at painting the interior and exterior of a house.
- 32:26Speaker 4: You look at polishing floorboards. You look at all this.
- 32:29Speaker 4: So what do people draw a line in the sand on?
- 32:32Speaker 4: What do they refuse to pay for someone else to do?
- 32:36Speaker 2: Refuse to pay?
- 32:36Speaker 13: Yeah.
- 32:37Speaker 2: Or the other way, what do you refuse to do
- 32:39Speaker 2: yourself and you're happy to pay?
- 32:40Speaker 3: Yeah, okay.
- 32:41Speaker 4: But where's the line? For me, like the gardens, like
- 32:44Speaker 4: I wouldn't get a gardener. You just get in, do
- 32:46Speaker 4: your gardens yourself. That's something you can do. Nothing against gardeners,
- 32:49Speaker 4: like good on them for doing what they do. But
- 32:52Speaker 4: painting as well? I'm not paying a painter. I fill
- 32:56Speaker 4: the bloody tin up, I roll it out, and I.
- 32:58Speaker 3: Do it myself.
- 32:59Speaker 2: I hate painting.
- 33:00Speaker 4: Well, you'd pay a painter to paint your house. It's
- 33:03Speaker 4: like 15 grand.
- 33:04Speaker 2: I hate painting.
- 33:06Speaker 4: You'd pay someone to do it. You're telling me you
- 33:08Speaker 4: wouldn't just crack in for a few weeks and just
- 33:10Speaker 4: paint the thing yourself.
- 33:11Speaker 2: There was this period of time when we were growing up,
- 33:14Speaker 2: and not every year, obviously, but every... I don't know,
- 33:19Speaker 2: four or five years, Dad would have this in his
- 33:21Speaker 2: head that Easter long weekend, we're painting the house.
- 33:23Speaker 12: Oh, God.
- 33:24Speaker 10: No.
- 33:25Speaker 2: No, we're not, Dad. Yes, we are. We're painting it.
- 33:27Speaker 2: And we never did a good job.
- 33:29Speaker 18: Really?
- 33:29Speaker 2: It was always never great.
- 33:31Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 33:31Speaker 2: So when Mum and Dad about six months ago said, well,
- 33:35Speaker 2: we're thinking about selling. We need to paint the house.
- 33:38Speaker 2: I'm not doing it.
- 33:38Speaker 8: Yeah.
- 33:38Speaker 2: They got someone in the door.
- 33:39Speaker 4: Oh, that's so bad, Sam. You should.
- 33:44Speaker 4: Rennie's walked in the studio. He's just shaking his head too. Mate,
- 33:47Speaker 4: you've got to crack in and paint. If you can paint,
- 33:49Speaker 4: you need to paint. Mind you, they do a much
- 33:51Speaker 4: better job, the pros, don't they?
- 33:52Speaker 2: Much better job.
- 33:53Speaker 4: Yeah, sometimes it looked like a toddler's crayon.
- 33:56Speaker 3: The latest in sports with Tom Renn.
- 33:58Speaker 2: Rennie, a man who's met many celebrities in his day-to-day living. Morning, Tom.
- 34:03Speaker 2: Who is the highest profile celebrity you've ever chatted to?
- 34:06Speaker 13: Oh.
- 34:07Speaker 14: You did Greg Norman a couple of years ago. Yeah,
- 34:09Speaker 14: Greg Norman, the shark. He's got a bit of presence
- 34:11Speaker 14: about him.
- 34:12Speaker 2: He definitely does.
- 34:13Speaker 3: Yeah. Then there's, oh, I guess the tennis guys, you know.
- 34:19Speaker 14: If you're talking international, you know, like, I was lucky
- 34:22Speaker 14: enough to call a few, you know, be over for
- 34:24Speaker 14: a few Australian Opens. When you see, like, Roger Federer
- 34:26Speaker 14: and Nadal and all those kinds of people, just in
- 34:29Speaker 14: terms of their global pool and all that kind of stuff. But, like,
- 34:32Speaker 14: we were talking about this earlier in the week, and
- 34:35Speaker 14: it's amazing you get really lucky to meet some people,
- 34:38Speaker 14: and you guys are the same, and I'm sure a
- 34:40Speaker 14: lot of people out there. I just think they're people
- 34:43Speaker 14: that are, really good at one particular thing.
- 34:45Speaker 2: Definitely.
- 34:46Speaker 3: You know, they're just people. There's some people who let go.
- 34:50Speaker 3: No question. Absolutely.
- 34:52Speaker 4: Some famous people are slogs.
- 34:53Speaker 3: No doubt.
- 34:54Speaker 2: Absolutely.
- 34:55Speaker 3: Totally. But we're not in that category.
- 34:58Speaker 4: No, most of us.
- 34:58Speaker 3: But we're not famous.
- 35:01Speaker 4: Now, a few things before sport.
- 35:03Speaker 10: Yes.
- 35:03Speaker 4: Have you shot that crow yet?
- 35:05Speaker 16: No, no.
- 35:06Speaker 3: Are you going to shoot it?
- 35:08Speaker 2: No.
- 35:08Speaker 3: I want to feed it, but then I think you
- 35:10Speaker 3: shouldn't domesticate the bird either, should you? Nah, I don't
- 35:13Speaker 3: think so.
- 35:14Speaker 14: Also, my brother-in-law's a painter, so yeah, whenever we have
- 35:18Speaker 14: a painting issue. But Sarah did a lot of painting
- 35:21Speaker 14: at our place.
- 35:23Speaker 2: Sarah cracks in.
- 35:24Speaker 3: Sarah cracks in.
- 35:24Speaker 14: So she laid out all the lawn. Did she? And
- 35:27Speaker 14: whenever the tradies come around, they go, now, mate, I'm
- 35:29Speaker 14: doing this, and I go... Nope. Go talk to her. And, yeah,
- 35:35Speaker 14: she cracks in. She saved tens of thousands by doing
- 35:39Speaker 14: all the stuff herself.
- 35:40Speaker 4: That's so good.
- 35:41Speaker 2: Okay.
- 35:41Speaker 3: But I'm hopeless. Look at these hands.
- 35:43Speaker 4: No, those hands are made for typing. And holding mics.
- 35:49Speaker 3: What else did you have? Did you want to ask me? No,
- 35:52Speaker 3: I asked you if you shot the crow. Yeah, it
- 35:54Speaker 3: doesn't sound like you got it.
- 35:55Speaker 2: Do you have any lucky charms?
- 35:56Speaker 3: Lucky charms? Lucky charms. No. Probably should, shouldn't I? But
- 36:00Speaker 3: no lucky charms.
- 36:01Speaker 4: You don't have to.
- 36:01Speaker 3: You don't have to. No, no lucky charms. What would
- 36:04Speaker 3: you shoot the crow with if you were going to
- 36:05Speaker 3: shoot it?
- 36:05Speaker 14: Let's talk about some sport, Tommy. Well, prelim final night.
- 36:09Speaker 14: It's always exciting. People describe it as they're often the
- 36:12Speaker 14: best games of the year.
- 36:14Speaker 2: The crowd is footy punters. They're footy punters.
- 36:17Speaker 17: Not corporates.
- 36:18Speaker 3: That's right. Yeah, they're all there.
- 36:19Speaker 2: Passionate. about the game.
- 36:21Speaker 3: I'll get your tips.
- 36:22Speaker 14: We'll come back to that, perhaps, and get your tips
- 36:24Speaker 14: for both the games. Chase Jones gone. You would have
- 36:28Speaker 14: played a bit with him, Ned.
- 36:29Speaker 18: Yeah.
- 36:29Speaker 3: 100 games. Was sort of in there for a while,
- 36:32Speaker 3: a couple of years ago.
- 36:33Speaker 14: He was getting a regular game, but unfortunately for him,
- 36:36Speaker 14: kind of fell out of favour. So not that surprising.
- 36:40Speaker 14: Riley O'Brien, he says he wants to stay, but... Look,
- 36:44Speaker 14: I'm sure if there's interest, the Crows and even O'Brien
- 36:47Speaker 14: would be open to a move.
- 36:49Speaker 3: But I'm not sure if that's going to happen.
- 36:51Speaker 14: And Luke Pedlar got some confirmation that he has met
- 36:54Speaker 14: with both Port Adelaide and Essendon. So we'll see what
- 36:59Speaker 14: happens with Luke Pedlar. And I think that's good for him.
- 37:02Speaker 14: Sometimes you just need a fresh start.
- 37:04Speaker 2: Should Port get him?
- 37:06Speaker 3: I like him. Yeah, I think he's a good player.
- 37:09Speaker 14: If, now ifs are big things in sports, Sammy, as
- 37:11Speaker 14: you know, But if he can get his body right,
- 37:14Speaker 14: I think he could be a pretty good midfielder. I've
- 37:17Speaker 14: always loved his, he's just got a big chest. He's powerful.
- 37:21Speaker 3: And so he's not going to get pushed over a contest.
- 37:24Speaker 3: I love that.
- 37:25Speaker 2: Wouldn't that just be the Adelaide Crows luck though? They
- 37:29Speaker 2: need midfielders. He goes off to another club, gets his
- 37:32Speaker 2: body right, becomes an elite midfielder.
- 37:34Speaker 12: Yeah.
- 37:34Speaker 14: And there's a way to go because he has had
- 37:38Speaker 14: his body let him down and And I think a
- 37:40Speaker 14: little bit of it is luck, but a little bit
- 37:42Speaker 14: of it needs to be on him as well. He
- 37:43Speaker 14: needs to train his ass off in the next six months.
- 37:46Speaker 14: I think that's fair, Ned, and just totally get himself fit.
- 37:49Speaker 14: And you need a bit of luck with that. But
- 37:51Speaker 14: if he can do that, I think he has the
- 37:54Speaker 14: potential to not potentially be a starting midfielder, but be–
- 37:59Speaker 14: a guy that plays in the middle and be a
- 38:01Speaker 14: good player.
- 38:02Speaker 4: I think injuries are important, Rennie, because some.
- 38:04Speaker 2: Massively.
- 38:05Speaker 4: Some players have the capacity to, you know, produce more
- 38:09Speaker 4: power than other people. So he's at much higher risk
- 38:13Speaker 4: of doing hamstrings and soft tissue injuries just because of
- 38:15Speaker 4: how much power he has in his body.
- 38:17Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 38:17Speaker 4: You know, someone like... I don't want to talk about myself,
- 38:19Speaker 4: but I'm like a diesel engine. Like, I can't do
- 38:22Speaker 4: hamstrings because I can't reach the power, the velocity, the
- 38:25Speaker 4: speed that he can. But his body is completely different, so...
- 38:27Speaker 4: I think people need to have a little bit of
- 38:29Speaker 4: empathy at times when these styles of players constantly get
- 38:32Speaker 4: injured because, you know, they're built different. And that's what
- 38:34Speaker 4: makes them amazing when they're on.
- 38:35Speaker 10: Yeah.
- 38:36Speaker 3: And you're right. And he does.
- 38:38Speaker 14: He can bust through contests. So he can do what?
- 38:41Speaker 14: Cam Rayner did to Neil Bullen last week, for example,
- 38:44Speaker 14: where he.
- 38:44Speaker 2: Could just push guys off.
- 38:45Speaker 3: He's got the potential to do that.
- 38:47Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 38:47Speaker 4: And you can't teach that. And even players can spend,
- 38:50Speaker 4: you know, years in the gym to develop strength, but
- 38:52Speaker 4: he's got an innate ability to produce velocity through his body.
- 38:55Speaker 3: It's just natural. He's got power. Yeah.
- 38:58Speaker 12: Yeah.
- 38:58Speaker 14: And so let's hope for him that it works out and,
- 39:01Speaker 14: you know, he finds somewhere and it goes well for him.
- 39:05Speaker 14: In terms of the footy tonight, really excited for this.
- 39:08Speaker 14: Sydney and Freo. Personally, I just think Freo will win.
- 39:11Speaker 14: I think Sydney were incredible two weeks ago, but I
- 39:15Speaker 14: think Frio tonight, if they're dead serious, and I think
- 39:18Speaker 14: they are, talent should win. I don't think you can
- 39:21Speaker 14: have four or five of your top eight players out
- 39:25Speaker 14: and win a game this big.
- 39:27Speaker 3: Now they'll have the crowd rabid. They're at home.
- 39:30Speaker 14: They'll be ferocious but i just think with what they've
- 39:32Speaker 14: got in that midfield and luke jackson playing the way
- 39:35Speaker 14: he is i can't see a world where sydney win.
- 39:38Speaker 2: So is is this one of the first times that
- 39:40Speaker 2: probably the favorites are the both the away.
- 39:42Speaker 14: Side yeah it's it's a good point sammy um It'd
- 39:45Speaker 14: have to be close, yeah, and particularly Sydney up there.
- 39:49Speaker 14: You know, normally you go, oh, they'd be hot favourites.
- 39:52Speaker 14: But Friot, I think this is a real test for them.
- 39:56Speaker 14: But I do think that win last week has, I mean,
- 40:00Speaker 14: I did say, we did say the same for Adelaide,
- 40:01Speaker 14: but I think this Fremantle side's a little bit more stacked.
- 40:05Speaker 3: And they should win.
- 40:06Speaker 2: They are.
- 40:06Speaker 4: It concerns me, though, that first game against Hawthorne, particularly
- 40:10Speaker 4: with how they started, and then the second half to
- 40:12Speaker 4: let Geelong back in the game like that. I'm kind
- 40:14Speaker 4: of thinking, yes, I back Freo in too. I think
- 40:17Speaker 4: they've clearly been the best side of the minor season.
- 40:20Speaker 3: But not confident.
- 40:21Speaker 2: And that's fair.
- 40:22Speaker 4: It's not like they've been consistent in either game. They
- 40:25Speaker 4: shouldn't have let Geelong back in. Geelong had a chance
- 40:27Speaker 4: to win that game.
- 40:28Speaker 3: So Freo, no changes. I like that.
- 40:30Speaker 14: Sydney, they've brought in McInerney simply because they probably have to.
- 40:34Speaker 14: It's been 15 weeks since he played with a hamstring.
- 40:36Speaker 14: But they've just gone, you know what, we need you.
- 40:38Speaker 14: Callum Mills is out. You've got to come straight back in. Now,
- 40:41Speaker 14: he's done all the work, but he hasn't played. Millican
- 40:44Speaker 14: also in. Other game, toss of the coin.
- 40:47Speaker 3: What a game.
- 40:47Speaker 14: Hawthorne, Brisbane. It's going to be so good. But Brisbane
- 40:51Speaker 14: have got a great record against Hawthorne. So for that reason,
- 40:53Speaker 14: for me.
- 40:54Speaker 2: Runs on the board.
- 40:55Speaker 16: Run.
- 40:55Speaker 2: Exactly.
- 40:56Speaker 3: Just play safe. Go Brisbane.
- 40:57Speaker 2: Well done, Tommy.
- 40:58Speaker 3: Good on you, boys.
- 40:59Speaker 2: Give us a call. 822-300-00. Quick break. Frank from Birkenhead.
- 41:02Speaker 2: Hang on the line. Stacey and Will for 5AA Breakfast
- 41:05Speaker 2: after 6 o'clock. Back in a moment.
- 41:07Speaker 1: Ned McHenry and Sam Datto. 5AA Early Breakfast.
- 41:16Speaker 9: 3-6.
- 41:17Speaker 2: Out of here in a couple of minutes, but a
- 41:18Speaker 2: couple of calls to go. Aaron in parallel.
- 41:19Speaker 6: How are we?
- 41:20Speaker 2: Good morning.
- 41:21Speaker 11: Morning, boys.
- 41:22Speaker 7: How are we?
- 41:23Speaker 2: Good, Aaron.
- 41:24Speaker 18: Uh, 2016, I was in Las Vegas, uh, sitting at
- 41:28Speaker 18: the pokies, and, um, all of a sudden, at Planet Hollywood,
- 41:34Speaker 18: all of a sudden, there was a swarm of people around.
- 41:36Speaker 11: The, uh, Blackjack Stadium.
- 41:38Speaker 12: So I thought I'd go over.
- 41:39Speaker 18: You know, see what's going on.
- 41:41Speaker 12: Anyway, it was the one I learned with Hugh Jackman.
- 41:44Speaker 13: Oh, wow.
- 41:44Speaker 11: Like, So I thought I'd be a smart aleck, and.
- 41:50Speaker 18: I was wearing a crows jersey, and I yelled out,
- 41:53Speaker 18: I said, Oi, Jackman, thought Adelaide sucked.
- 41:56Speaker 12: Go the crows.
- 41:57Speaker 18: And he looked up, he saw me, he waved me over,
- 42:00Speaker 18: shook my hand and said, never.
- 42:02Speaker 12: Will I ever go for the crows, mate. I'm a
- 42:04Speaker 12: power boy through and through.
- 42:05Speaker 3: Oh, that's good.
- 42:06Speaker 2: Well done, Aaron. That's a good one. Good spirit, Jackman
- 42:09Speaker 2: in Vegas. Frank in Birkenhead, good morning.
- 42:11Speaker 6: Good morning, guys. Ned, in relation to Peyton, And all
- 42:15Speaker 6: those people out there or anyone else out there that's
- 42:19Speaker 6: never done painting in their life and don't want to
- 42:22Speaker 6: pay thousands of dollars. You know, I learned painting just
- 42:25Speaker 6: from looking at a few basic books. When we bought
- 42:27Speaker 6: our house, I said to my dear wife, Lorraine, I
- 42:30Speaker 6: don't know the first thing about painting. How am I
- 42:32Speaker 6: going to park? We can't afford to spend thousands of
- 42:35Speaker 6: dollars or so many thousands of dollars painting the house.
- 42:37Speaker 6: So I just read a few basic books. painted the
- 42:41Speaker 6: whole house inside and out. And to me, it looked
- 42:44Speaker 6: like a bloody damn good job. It was a good job.
- 42:47Speaker 6: And I was really happy with it. And, yeah, just
- 42:51Speaker 6: some basic books, mate. So you don't have to be
- 42:54Speaker 6: a professional painter. You would be surprised how much of
- 42:57Speaker 6: a good job one can do by just looking at
- 43:00Speaker 6: some basic books, mate.
- 43:03Speaker 4: Anything that Rowie has done professionally is easy.
- 43:07Speaker 3: It's as simple as that.
- 43:10Speaker 6: Yeah, mate. I thought I'd share that with you.
- 43:12Speaker 2: Well done. Screen printing, installing windscreens, painting.
- 43:15Speaker 4: No, all of those are hard. Painting's not hard. Painting, painting, no,
- 43:19Speaker 4: being a good painter is hard. I don't want to
- 43:21Speaker 4: offend any of our painters. Now, I think if you
- 43:23Speaker 4: spend the money, you're clearly going to get a much
- 43:25Speaker 4: better result. But for me, painting's something you can crack
- 43:27Speaker 4: in and do yourself.
- 43:28Speaker 2: We've had a very busy morning.
- 43:29Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 43:29Speaker 2: And I reckon the Pepper's Truck Wash Pack, let's give
- 43:31Speaker 2: it to Dave in Meadows.
- 43:32Speaker 3: It's gone down to Dave, is it?
- 43:33Speaker 4: Has Dave already got a Pepper's Truck Wash Pack? Have
- 43:36Speaker 4: you checked that? I reckon he might have already got one.
- 43:38Speaker 2: Well, Dave, I'm going to go through the files. If
- 43:40Speaker 2: you have one, we're not sending another one, but you've
- 43:42Speaker 2: got a provisional Peppers truck wash pack coming your way
- 43:44Speaker 2: because people thought you were John Candy. That was just excellent.
- 43:47Speaker 4: That's a great yarn. Well done.
- 43:49Speaker 2: We've got to get out of here. Busy show coming
- 43:50Speaker 2: up for 5AA Breakfast. They're going to have Rick Davies
- 43:53Speaker 2: on the Jumbo Prince, Feedback Friday, Meat Tray Friday. plus
- 43:56Speaker 2: your calls, plus a chance to enter the AFL Grand Final. Neddy, also,
- 44:00Speaker 2: we're off next week.
- 44:01Speaker 3: Yeah, we are.
- 44:02Speaker 2: So high-fivers, don't fear, we will be back in a
- 44:05Speaker 2: week's time. You can catch Ned on Drive from Monday.
- 44:07Speaker 2: But until then, enjoy the good weather.
- 44:09Speaker 4: Enjoy the weather, folks!